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#include <stdio.h> | |
int main(){ | |
int i; | |
int nums[5] = {0,1,2,3,4}; | |
printf("Array is {0,1,2,3,4}, so the first char is arr[0] and the last one is arr[4], but len(arr) is 5.\n\n"); | |
printf("Generally, your options for going through arrays are: \n\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 0; i < len; i++)\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)\n"); | |
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++){ | |
printf("%d ", nums[i]); | |
} | |
printf("\n"); | |
printf("No off-by-one.\n\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 0; i <= last_elem_index; i++)\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++)\n"); | |
for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++){ | |
printf("%d ", nums[i]); | |
} | |
printf("\n"); | |
printf("No off-by-one.\n\n"); | |
printf("for (i = last_elem_index; i => 0; i--)\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 4; i => 0; i--)\n"); | |
for (i = 4; i >= 0; i--){ | |
printf("%d ", nums[i]); | |
} | |
printf("\n"); | |
printf("No off-by-one.\n\n"); | |
printf("Anything else is off-by-one:\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 0; i <= 5; i++)\n"); | |
for (i = 0; i <= 5; i++){ | |
printf("%d ", nums[i]); | |
} | |
printf("\n"); | |
printf("WRONG.\n\n"); | |
printf("for (i = 4; i > 0; i--)\n"); | |
for (i = 4; i > 0; i--){ | |
printf("%d ", nums[i]); | |
} | |
printf("\n"); | |
printf("WRONG (look how many elements are printed).\n\n"); | |
return 0; | |
} |
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